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Living in a volatile world: Pengana

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
Living in interesting times means now may be the time to focus on volatility itself instead of just traditional performance measures, said Alvin Wilkinson, principal portfolio manager of the new Pengana Global Volatility Fund that is due to launch in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
SYDNEY - The Australian sharemarket is likely to start the morning's trade lower, with a flat lead from Wall Street and not much positive activity among the metal prices overseas. At 0706 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price ...

Industry fund ads off target?

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
Industry superannuation funds need to focus more on member communication, education and online presence, not scaremongering by focussing on fees, according to Vanessa Stoykov, chief executive of marketing, media and communications group Evolution Media. ...

Investors Accru SMAs

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
High net worth advice specialists Accru Financial Planning (AFP) have partnered with BlackRock to offer Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) on its menu. Director Matthew Kidd said BlackRock's size and international reach, including the future inclusion ...

Aust Unity FP in the red

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
A restructure in Australian Unity's financial planning division has resulted to more divisional losses this year compared to 2006 despite funds under advice growing 57 per cent to $300 million. In the year to June, the group's financial planning arm ...

MLC to brandish ISO 9001 logo

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
The "ISO 9001 certified" stamp is known as the international symbol of quality control in food, computers and other manufacturing goods. Now financial planning is set to undergo the same rigorous checks too following a historic deal between MLC and ...

Reverse mortgages stumped by slump

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
The reverse mortgage market continued its exponential growth last financial year, but housing market downturns, especially in NSW, tempered the surge, according to the latest SEQUAL/Trowbridge Deloitte Reverse Mortgage Market Study. Reverse mortgage ...

Challenger FP revs up Synergy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
Challenger's financial planning arm has invested in additional hardware and software to increase the processing power of its platform business, Synergy Capital Management, by up to ten times To be completed in June 2008, new hardware has been installed ...

Markets still at risk: Tagliaferro

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
One of the country's leading fund managers, Anton Tagliaferro, is the latest stockmarket expert to voice his concerns about investor attitude towards risk and observed that today's investors are less risk-aware compared to their predecessors. Tagliaferro ...

Portfolios not adjusted for downturn

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
Despite recent turmoil in credit markets flowing into equities, investors have been slow to alter their portfolios to match, according to Merrill Lynch's Survey of Fund Managers for September. Conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofres, the survey of 188 fund ...